What generous quantities of imagination, creativity, and emotion young children pour into the vessels of their stuffed animals, inventing personalities through which they explore the mysteries of human nature that are unfolding on a grander and less huggable scale all about them. It was the genius of A. A. Milne, observing his own son, Christopher, playing with his teddy bear, to immortalize such childhood inspiration in affectionate tales that are among the most endearing in all children’s literature. It’s hard to imagine better bedside reading for parents and tots than these celebrations of companionship and fanciful but nevertheless unconditional love. If they’re lucky, young listeners will live to discover—when the time has come for them to read to their own little ones—that days spent in the Hundred Acre Wood with Winnie and Christopher Robin can return after decades with all their tenderness and wonder intact.
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